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How to Start Social Centers

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
46 pages

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Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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The Recent Trend of Salaries in Child Welfare Agencies

Author
Ralph G. Hurlin
Hardcover
Publication Date
16 pages

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Planned to supplement a more extensive 1941 study of salaries of child welfare workers, this 1944 report notes what was then a trend of salaries of member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America moving generally and substantially upward. It sets out to present and interpret these results.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Salaries and Qualifications of YWCA Professional Workers

Author
Ralph G. Hurlin
Ebook
Publication Date
28 pages

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This 1943 study examines the salaries of the paid professional workers at the Young Women's Christian Associations throughout the United States in the month of October 1942. Its purpose is to examine some of the chief characteristics of this group of social work personnel, particularly to understand how these factors influence the salaries these workers receive.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Salaries and Qualifications of Child Welfare Workers in 1941

Author
Ralph G. Hurlin
Ebook
Publication Date
30 pages

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Published in 1943, this study was made to reveal the salaries of professional and houseparent workers in child welfare agencies, with a look into the tendencies affecting these salaries. It was undertaken at the request of the Child Welfare League of America, and the results are descriptive of agencies that were specifically associated in the League.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Job of Being a Trustee

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
16 pages

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This paper, published in 1916, presents one part of the Round Table Plan, established to assist institutions that care for dependent children in their administrative duties. The Plan comprises eight studies, each of which is devoted to a vital problem of institutional management. It looks at the position of trusteeship of institutions for dependent, neglected, and ill children. Also analyzed is how a trustee can affect the institution's ability to earn a profit.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Meeting the Problem of Mental Defectiveness

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
8 pages

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This paper, read before the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction in 1913, is concerned with the best way to help people with mental deficiencies and what roles they have in society. It estimates annual costs of care in the state of New York.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cottage and Congregate Institutions for Children

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Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
136 pages

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Published in 1910 as a handbook for institutions, Cottage and Congregate Institutions for Children presents a series of several floorplans and views illuminating the practical considerations behind establishing such institutions for children. Also included is a study of fifty representative organizations.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Suggested Program for the Executive State Council of Defense of West Virginia

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
24 pages

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From the text: "A pamphlet containing a suggested program for the Executive State Council in the mobilization of the resources of the State to meet conditions growing out of the prosecution of the war with Germany.  Based upon a study of conditions in West Virginia."

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Small Loan Legislation

Progress and Improvements
Author
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
8 pages

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Address delivered before the Seventh Annual Convention of the American Industrial Lenders' Association in Chicago 1921.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Proceedings of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations

Editor
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
106 pages

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Proceedings of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations meeting of 1911. Includes the keynote paper, Remedial Loans as Factors in Family Rehabilitation, presented by Arthur H. Ham of the Russell Sage Foundation.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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